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BALING PRESS.

No. 462,980. Patented Nov. 10, 1891.

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No. 462.930. Patented Nov. 1o, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM S. REEDER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO TIIE KINGSLAND d: DOUGLAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,930, dated November 10, 1891.

Application filed January 9, 1891. Serial No. 377,285. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. REEDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referro ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates more particularly to baling-presses in which a multiple or plurality of charging-boxes is used, and has more especial reference to a press having revolving charging-boxes, and in' which a bale is made up of several successive charges.

The present invention is more especially designed as an improvement on baling-prosses zo patented to me by United States Letters Patent No. 379,414, of March 13, 1888, and United States Letters Patent No. 437,242, patented to me on September 30, 1890.

In a double or multiple charging-box bal- 2 5 ing-press, particularly of the revolving type of press, it is essential that each chargingbox be provided with a loose follower or bottom, for the reason that before receiving the last charge it is necessary that the bagging 3o which is intended to cover the bottom of the bale should be placed on the top of this loose follower or bottom, in order that when the bale is finished the bottom thereof will be covered with bagging. It is also desirable 3 5 that this loose follower or bottom should be somewhat smaller in area than the cross-section of the charging-boxes, in order that the bagging may be more readily carried by the follower, and also to prevent the loose bot- 4o tom, when carrying the bagging, from bindplacing the bagging on the top of said follower. It is also desirable, when this follower recedes and assumes its normal position below the charging-box after a charge has been pressed into the finishing-box, that it should seat itself centrally-that is, the axle of the charging-box should be coincident with the center of said follower.

To carry out these objects I provide my baling-press with a loose follower or bottom, which normally is beneath the charging-box and leaves a space between the bottom of the charging-box and the top of the follower and I also provide centering-blocks whereby the said loose follower will be maintained in correct alignment with the charging-box and an equal margin be left between the perimeter of the loose follower and the inside perimeter of the charging-box. The centering-blocks are preferably carried by supporting -irons hung from the bottom of the charging-boxes, which irons also sustain the ends of the bagging and prevent the edges thereof from hanging over and coming in the way of the traverser or plunger when the charging-box is moved in position for pressing. Should no provision of this kind be made there would be danger of the bagging being caught between the traverser and the loose bottom and that portion of the bagging would necessarily be lost, as it would have to be out oif before the bale could be removed.

It is also desirable in revolving chargingbox baling-presses to have some mechanism whereby the boxes may be revolved conveniently from the second iioor, and for this latter purpose I provide my baling-press with suitable gearing for readily and easily positioning and manipulating the revolving charging-boxes.

The invention will best be understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the balingpress provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Figs. 3 and 4:

are side and end elevations showing theloose bottom or follower and the centering-blocks. Figs. 5, (i, 7, 8, 9, l0, and 10 are views of details.

The same figures of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

11 and 12 are two revolving charging-boxes swung about a central vertical rod 13, substantially the same as in my patent, No. 437,242, of September 30, 1890, referred to above.

14 is the finishing or baling chamber, and is maintained stationary in the usual way. The boxes 11 and 12 are adapted to be brought successively in alignment with the baling or finishing chamber 14 and a traverser or plunger 15, and also with an opening 16, through which material may be thrown into one of the boxes at the time the charge of the other box is beingcompressed. The plunger or traverser l5 maybe controlled by any suitable mechanism, which makes no part of this invention, but is here shown as operated by mechanism, as in my last-mentioned patent.

Carried by the lower cross-timbers 17 at the bottom I of the charging-boxes are su-pporting-irons 18, which carry inclined centering-blocks 19, upon which normally rests a loose bottom or follower 20. The supportingirons 1S and centering-blocks are so arranged that when the loose bottom is in its normal position a space will be left between the bottom of the charging-boxes and said loose bottom, whereby the bagging for the last charge may be placed on the top of the said loose follower. The supporting-irons 18 hold up the'edges of the bagging, which is larger in extent than the area of t-he charging-boxes, and prevent the bagging from hanging down and being caught between the traverser or plunger 15 and the loose bottom. The inclined blocks 19 center the` loose follower when it returns.. to its normal position and maintain the perimeter of the loose bottom at an equal distance all around its edges from the inside perimeter of the charging-boxes.

To readily move and revolve the boxes in' position from the second oor F of the press,

I provide ahandle 21, which is fastened in lugs 22, extending from a circular piece 23, that is provided with a locking-tooth or pawl 24, held in place by a pin or bolt 25, carried by said circular piece. This circular piece 23 is adapted to rest upon a crown-wheel or ratchet 26, and' the locking-tooth 24 of said circular piece is adapted to take into the teeth of said crown-wheel andlock the circular piece 23 to the same against rotation in one direction, but allows the circular piece to be moved in the other direction without turning the ratchet-wheel 26. By raising the circular piece 23, carrying the pin 25,*that supports the pawl 24, the said pawl may be reversedthat is, swung in the opposite. direction, so as to move the ratchet when pushed in the opposite' direction, but allow said ratchet to vstand still when the handle is returned to its of said vertical rod 27 is a spur-wheel 29, which meshes with a gear-wheel 30, having teeth cut upon the inside thereof. This gearthe same arc of a circle that the boxes move through, By reversing the locking tooth or pawl in the manner described the reverse movement of the handle will rotate the boxes in the opposite direction in a similar manner.

By throwing the handle 2l in one or the other direction the boxes, through the instrumentality of the gearing described, may be moved by a person on the second floor F of the press into alignment with the follower and baling-chamber and with the opening 16. The revolution of the spur-wheel 2,9 rotates the wheel 30, and thereby revolves the'chargingboxes in a manner evident from the foregoing.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a balingpress having a multiplicity' of oombined chargingl and baling boxes with automatic mechanism by which the said combined charging and baling boxes may be revolved automatically in one direction by the return movement of the pressing mechanism- Having fully set forth my improvements, what l desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States as my invention 1. A baling-press havin-g a. loose bottom orY follower and inclined blocks 19 for centering said follower, and means for supporting said inclined blocks, substantially as described. E

2. A baling-press having a finishing or baling chamber and a charging-box with aloose i follower or bottom beneath said chargingbox, and means for supporting the loose folf lower so as to leave a space between the said loose follower and the charging-box, whereby the bagging for the last charge of thev bale may be inserted between the loose follower and the charging-box, substantially as described.

3. A baling-press having a loose fol-lower or bottom beneath the charging-box,with a space between said loose follower and the charging-box, whereby the bagging for the bale may be inserted between thel said loose follower and the charging-box, and supporting-irons 18 for sustaining said bottom and supporting the edges of the bagging, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A baling-press having a multiple of revolving charging-boxes, gearing for revolving said boxes in position, a handle controlling said gearing, and a reversible pawl-andratchet mechanism betweensaid handle and gearing whereby the boxes may be rotated continuously in one or the other direction by successive short strokes of the handle.

5. The combination, in a baling-press, of a plurality of revolving charging-boxes, a gear- IOO IIO

whee130, secured thereto, a seooudgear-wheei Y In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 29, intermeshing with the first-mentioned my hand and afixed my seal this 24th day of 1o gear-Wheel, averticai rod 27, carrying the lat- December, 1390, in the presence of the two ter, extending abone the second floor of the subscribing witnesses.

5 press, a handle 2l, controlling said rod, and a WILLIAM REEDER. [L s] reversible pawl 24 and a ratchet 2G between Witnesses: l said handle and vertical rod, substantially as J. F. WESTON, described. A. C. FOWLEP.. 

